Life

Life is unpredictable. And fragile.

One minute you could be walking confidently up the road and the next minute you could be paralysed waist-down after being hit by a drunk driver. Or one minute you could be lying on your back on a white sandy beach somewhere and the next minute you could be lying helpless on a hospital bed with tubes and support system feeding your body. One minute you could be as fit as a fiddle and as healthy as a horse and the next minute you could be ill and depressed and contemplating suicide after being diagnosed with a dreaded disease.

One minute you could be rich and wealthy and powerful and the next minute you could be destitute and bankrupt. Or one minute you could be earning megabucks or at least earning comfortably and the next you could be scraping for your everyday existence.

One minute you could be the toast of society with everyone vying to be your friend and the next minute you could be a social pariah. One minute you could be envied and the next minute you could be shunned.

Of course the opposite can happen too. Like one minute you could be living from hand to mouth but the next minute you could hit pay dirt or strike gold and be filthy rich.

Because the only thing that is certain of life is that it is unpredictable. It’s funny how life works out. Not ha-ha funny but strange funny.

Of late, I have been reminding myself of the above - of how life can change so drastically seemingly in the blink of an eye. And I think it’s important for me to remember this lest I become arrogant, cocky, proud or riak and forget about myself and forget about being humble.

Because God works in Mysterious Ways and He can take away from you any time He wishes to just as He can give generously.

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Thanks to Facebook, I am now in touch again with long-lost friends. I have also made new friends besides reinforcing friendship with my current mates. It really is a marvellous tool to help us stay in touch with friends. In fact, I know of two people who used to date, got engaged, broke up and moved on with their lives with the girl now married with kids. And now, they are Facebook friends. When I found out about it, I couldn’t help thinking and marvelling at how mature they both are.

Heck, after all, life’s just too short and unpredictable to be bitter.

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Arsenal hammered West Ham last weekend and over the weekend also won over Burnley to advance to the fourth round of the FA Cup.